Scottish Mediation recently Agreed its Strategy for 2024-27. The document reviews achievements over the past period and sets out priorities for Scottish Mediation over the next period. To read the strategy please click here.
Collaborate November 2024
Read this month’s Collaborate here Articles on Scottish Mediation’s New Chair Mediate 24 – The Power of Words Difficult Conversations Mediation is the Goal and news about Scottish Mediation Events
Scottish Mediation Appoints New Chair
At it’s recent AGM Scottish Mediation appointed Tracey Chrystal as it’s new Chair of the Board. Tracey is an established Non-Exec Board Director with 7 years’ experience gained on a Financial Board. Her board responsibilities extended from committee activities, chair of remuneration to ensuring a 50/50 gender split board was achieved during her tenure which […]
Collaborate September 2024
Read this months Collaborate here with articles on Mediation in Malaysia Civil Procedure Rules in England and Wales William Ury Experience of Workplace Conflict The Edinburgh Conversations and News and events from Scottish Mediation
Join Our Board
Come and join our Board and help make mediation in Scotland easy to access with its skills embedded across the whole of Scotland. We’re working on plans to promote our award winning Peer Mediation offering in Scotland’s schools, to extend the availability of mediation in our courts and to ensure that the mediation the public […]
Collaborate June 2024
Click here to read the June 2024 edition of Collaborate In this issue Mediation Uptake in BAME Families Githa Overton examines the uptake of mediation in BAME communities. Peer Mediation Success Mallory Hybl highlights new Scottish Mediation work in Fife Secondary Schools. Cyrenians Learning Zone Last month Cyrenians Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution launched a […]
Peer Mediation Update 2024!
Peer mediation has been buzzing over this past year! In a world where conflict is so often viewed as something that is inevitably violent, our peer mediators constantly show us that conflict can be a space for positive change if handled with mediation tools and communication skills that enable us to act in more collaborative, […]
Scottish Mediation seeking new Board Chair
Mediation is in the news more than ever and yet as a profession we have a long way to go to become fully embedded in Scottish society. Scottish Mediation has seen great steps forward over the last number of years and in our new strategy we’re clear on how we’d like to move forward. We’re […]
Head of Professional Practice – Mediation with Relationships Scotland
Please find the link below to a new job opportunity at Relationships Scotland’s National Office, Head of Professional Practice – Mediation with Relationships Scotland – Goodmoves The closing date for completed applications is Monday 5th February at 5pm and interviews will be held in person at 18 York Place, Edinburgh on Thursday 22nd February. If […]
Big Changes in Civil Justice Across the UK
In the space of a couple of weeks big changes have been announced for Civil Justice in the UK. In Scotland Victims and Community Safety Minister Siobhian Brown launched an expansion of mediation in Sheriff Courts across Scotland. Free mediation services, backed by more than £250,000 of Scottish Government funding in 2023-2024, are available for […]
December Collaborate
Click here to read the December edition of Collaborate Articles this edition include: Big Changes in Civil Justice Scottish Government Support for Mediation and UK rulings make for an interesting future. A Year of Peer Mediation Kathryn Hilditch looks at what has been a great year for Peer Mediation across schools in Scotland. Mediation News […]
Scottish Mediation AGM
Scottish Mediation’s AGM is taking place on Monday 9th October online. Once we are finished our AGM business we are delighted to welcome Sriram Panju as our guest speaker. India recently passed a Mediation Act and Sriram who was centrally involved in the process will will talk about how it came about, what’s in it […]
Peer Mediation Coordinator
Scottish Mediation are recruiting a Peer Mediation Coordinator. The successful candidate will continue the development of peer mediation, focusing on the delivery of training in schools. Scottish Mediation has recently been working in Fife and is about to start work in Perth and Kinross. From this work it is likely that further opportunities will arise […]
August Collaborate
Click here to read the August edition of Collaborate. In this edition Mediate 23 Keynotes and ticket sales open for this years conference. Finding the Common Ground Sam Tedcastle on a two year project to in the Deer Management Sector using mediators to improve relationships Mandatory Mediation Patrick Scott previews his newly published, highly topical […]
Join Our Board
Come and join our Board and help make mediation in Scotland easy to access with its skills embedded across the whole of Scotland. We’re working on plans to promote our award winning Peer Mediation offering in Scotland’s schools, to extend the availability of mediation in our courts and to ensure that the mediation the public […]
Let’s settle this like children
Check out our amazing peer mediation training review by conflict and mediation blogger Alan Jeffrey, who accompanied us to one of our training sessions. Delightfully titled ‘Lets Settle This Like Children’ Let’s settle this like children (mongooseandcobra.co.uk)
Peer Mediation Update!
It’s been a very busy and exciting couple of years for peer mediation. In October 2021 we were commissioned by Our Minds Matter, Fife to deliver peer mediation training for primary schools across the local authority area. Between then and January 2023 we delivered 17 two-day training sessions on a cluster basis, bringing together P5 […]
Mongoose and Cobra
Check out Alan Jeffrey’s blog page with short articles about his thoughts on mediation, conflict resolution etc. www.mongooseandcobra.co.uk
Time for Culture Change
Back in 2020 Scottish Mediation launched the Scottish Mediation Charter. The purpose of the Charter was to highlight the positive impacts of using mediation and the skills of mediation as part of the day to day working of organisations. Since the launch we’ve recruited organsations large and small and it is now supported by […]
February Collaborate
Click here to read the February 2023 edition of Collaborate. This month’s issue features Everybody Needs Good Neighbours May Millward on Scottish Mediation’s project for private sector neighbour disputes. Family Mediation Rosanne Cubitt on why mediation is such a great option for family disputes. Scottish Mediation Charter Graham Boyack on why mediation is a plus […]
A Turbulent Year and Hope for 2023
As we move towards the New Year, I was looking at what has happened in the last year and what a year it’s been. And I don’t mean that in a good way. The first event that came to mind was the Ukraine war which commenced on the 24th February. Whilst there had been some […]
Listening, Learning, Reflecting, and Connecting
Scottish Mediation’s annual conference has always been a time I look forward to and even more so this year. After three years meeting on Zoom we hosted our event in person this year and in the run up to the event so many people told me how much they were looking forward to seeing people […]
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